I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
AGNES MARTINYou must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I paint with my back to the world
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.
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When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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It’s through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
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